Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIV, Issue 2
Written by Iulian Andrei SZEIKELY, Valerica TUDOR, Laurențiu Cătălin BOROIU, Răzvan Ionuț TEODORESCU
Organic agriculture has experienced an accelerated development in recent decades in response to growing concerns about public health, food safety and environmental protection. Organic farming provides consumers with healthy food uncontaminated with toxic residues. The main objective of the present work was to investigate the evolution of organic & conventional vegetable farming at World, EU and Romanian levels over a period of fifteen years (2009-2023), in terms of cultivated areas, production, vegetable market analysis, situation of organizations and evolution of the certification process in vegetable crops (Romania), in a global context marked by the growth of this sector. Romania has a high potential in organic vegetable growing, but faces small areas, modest production and high dependence on imports.
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